Rose has been all over the country and a decent chunk of the globe, but today she lands a few minutes to tell us about where she came from and how she got to be one of our beloved local pipers! Forgive the host for being a bit off, he was recovering from the second round of the COVID vaccine. Tune into this episode to hear Rose say, "I guess it was a scarf-- it could've repelled bullets though, it was knit so tightly..."

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This guy needs no introduction - it's Big Rab! It'll be remarkable if you've managed to avoid knowing about his show, but just in case, here's a link to the RSS feed, and it's available everywhere quality podcasts are streamed.

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Tune-in to this episode to hear Rab say, "...if it's got short stumpy fingers, that's gonna be a drummer..."

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Happy Halloween, friends! In this episode renowned piper, pipeband instructor, and Nancy Drew expert Diana joins us to discuss that famous installation in the young sleuth's illustrious career, "The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes". If you haven't read it you've almost definitely at least seen the cover. Tune-in this week to hear Diana say, "...if we took out the costume and the sexism... it did pretty good...".

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Don Smith is a name you've almost definitely heard in the piping & drumming scene of Utah. An instructor, band founder, instrument fixer, and much more - tune into this episode to hear Don say, "...yeah, I did break a lot of reeds..."

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Josh, the other, (not quite as pretty,) half of the Chanter Rant and mastermind behind so, so many excellent offerings from the Las Vegas Pipe Band lets me question him for much longer than he should've. Content warning: Josh did an admirable job making his content far more, "family-friendly," than the standard Chanter Rant episode, but keep in mind, he's not from Utah County... a sample, to give you an idea: Tune into this episode to hear Josh say, "...she must be a lesbian... this chick didn't want to go out with me, that's the only possible explanation..."

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O Captain! my Captain! our podcast episode is done, The band has weather'd a viral attack, the prize we sought may soon be won, Normalcy is near, the drones I hear, the judges all exulting, While follow sticks the steady stomp, pipe majors' foot a-pumping... Pipe Major of the Garden Valley Pipe Band, everyone, give it a listen and give him a hand! Tune into this episode to hear Danny (not) reveal the location of the fountain of perpetual youth... we'll get it out of him someday.

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Dan created the Facebook group, "McNewbies Piper Annotated Sheet Music," to help pipers learn to read bagpipe music. To the scorn of a few but to the great admiration of many. Tune into this episode to hear Dan say, "if I had like thirty to fifty followers, that'd be fantastic!" regarding his Facebook group which now boasts nearly 2,000 members and is growing daily.

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She's kind of a big deal. People know her. Kariann Hibbard shares some stories, talks band development, band management, teaching, learning, medlies, harmonies, stalking boys, Lord of the Rings - and the list goes on! Tune in to this episode to hear Kariann say, "...we called them the fab five..."

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Jeremy Kingsbury is a talented highland, uilleann, border, scottish-small, and otherwise piper. He also plays various whistles, jaw harp, and sundry - plus he speaks Ojibwe, hosts the world's first bagpiping podcast, and is probably a time-traveller. Jeremy, (a.k.a. Wetootwaag,) hosts an excellent podcast where he explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), and he performs tunes from these collections on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes and whistles, along with occasional guest musicians. In this episode we talk about, (and listen to,) a few tracks from an album Jeremy's recent album of awesome old tunes - I highly recommend checking it out: Oyster Wives Rant I was flattered at his willingness to come onto Droning On for an interview - he's a wealth of knowledge and I've been extremely excited to share this interview with you, friends! If you didn't already know about his podcast, it's available on most streaming services, here's the website: https://www.wetootwaag.com/

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Tune into this episode to hear Wetootwaag declared the official, "Podfather of Bagpipery".

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You may know him as a judge, an instructor, a piper, and you may well have one of his reeds in your chanter at this very moment. Adrian Melvin has played his pipes on a few continents and his excellent reeds are played by pipers on even more continents around the world. Tune into this episode to hear Adrian say, "insert authentically Scottish saying in Scottish accent" and check out Adrian's excellent reeds at lots of distributors all over the world and at his own website: https://www.melvinreeds.com/ and follow him on Facebook!

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